Vernacular vs. Idiom
Difference Between Vernacular and Idiom
Vernacularnoun
The language of a people or a national language.
A vernacular of the United States is English.Idiomnoun
A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, person, or group of people.
Vernacularnoun
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.Idiomnoun
A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.
Vernacularnoun
Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.Idiomnoun
An established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words, often peculiar to a given language.
Vernacularnoun
(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.Idiomnoun
An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
Vernacularadjective
Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Idiomnoun
(programming) A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.
Vernacularadjective
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
a vernacular diseaseIdiomnoun
a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
Vernacularadjective
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
Idiomnoun
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;
the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of Englishhe has a strong German accentVernacularadjective
(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
Idiomnoun
the style of a particular artist or school or movement;
an imaginative orchestral idiomVernacularnoun
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
they don't speak our lingoIdiomnoun
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
Vernacularnoun
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
Vernacularadjective
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;
common parlancea vernacular termvernacular speakersthe vulgar tongue of the massesthe technical and vulgar names for an animal species
